The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation, introduced by the Jason Kenney United Conservative Government, seeks to “enable access capital, make financing more affordable and improve lending terms create economic prosperity social improvements in communities” (AIOC 2019). In other words, it provides nations with loans participate resource development Alberta. This neoliberalist approach s...

Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission This paper argues – in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress – that we should now be measuring a nation’s emotional prosperity rather than its economic prosperity (that is, we ought to focus on the level of mental well-being not the number of pounds in people’s ban...

domestic product (GDP) growth, material resource use and carbon emissions it is remarkable that most economic policy approaches do not question the priority placed on GDP growth (Jackson 2009). Assuming that the basic function of economic development is the provision of conditions for human beings to prosper in their personal and social lives, our research attempts to identify potentials for a ...

Large metropolitan cities bring together diverse individuals, creating opportunities for cultural and intellectual exchanges, which can ultimately lead to social and economic enrichment. In this work, we present a novel network perspective on the interconnected nature of people and places, allowing us to capture the social diversity of urban locations through the social network and mobility pat...

In order to respond the new situation and challenges of global digitalization economy, promote development digital economy practice great ideal common prosperity socialism, Party's twenty major reports require taking as engine drive rural economic development, realize transformation from traditional agricultural comprehensively deepen revitalization in era. With information network carrier comm...

By investigating living standards in Slovenia in the 1980’s this article attempts to prove a hypothesis about the ambiguity of prosperity as far as possession of certain assets and housing standards are concerned. The author explores the subject by analyzing data collected through the "Quality of Life Survey" in 1984 and 1991 by random sampling. The results prove the ambiguity of prosperity by ...